From Rhode Island, U.S.A., the publication began in 1985 as The Cthulhu Codex, but with issue 6, in 1996, it assumed the name it is best remembered as, Cthulhu Codex, which it retained till the last issue, #17, published in 2000, which was called Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex. Cthulhu Codex published fiction by writers working in the horror and weird fiction vein.